Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health
The Harvard Chan National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Center for Environmental Health is a coordinated set of resources and facilities supporting environmental health research and training activities throughout the greater Boston area. The center promotes integration between basic and applied environmental science, and fosters collaborations that cross departmental and institutional boundaries.
665 Huntington Ave.
Building 1-1402
Boston, MA 02115
Core Components
The Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health builds research capacity, fosters multidisciplinary and translational research, and prioritizes community engagement and environmental justice.
Translational Research Support Core
Support across all four of the Center’s pillars of research excellence—Populations, Exposures, Mechanisms, and Environmental Justice—and integration of activities.
Environmental Health Data Science Core
Centralized support and training in data management, research computing, biostatistics, statistical genetics, bioinformatics, environmental epidemiology, and spatial statistics.
Community Engagement Core
Partnership with community organizations and initiatives to co-develop strategies that address local, regional and national environmental health concerns.
Pilot Project Program
Awards of up to $30,000. Calls for applications in spring and fall.
Career Development
Financial support, mentoring, professional network building, and general guidance for new investigators.
About the Center
Populations to pathways to prevention:
Environmental health science to empower action
Mission: To understand the contribution of environmental exposures to disease to empower action to prevent disease and improve public health, and address inequities in environmentally driven disease by promoting collaborations, partnerships, and translation.
Vision: To foster multidisciplinary collaborations to conduct innovative environmental health science research that nimbly addresses the current and future challenges of a complex environmental health exposure space.
Who we are
